... but i decided it is now grown enough to get its own thread
i already posted some pics in wummi's thread, yesterday i took the parts to my parents' house (more tools and some space to work with them ) and started to make it an actual build, not just two hdd cases glued together (to be honest now it is two CUT hdd cases glued together, so far all i used was 1/2 stick of hotglue : ). that's how it looks now:
in the dark:
and with some smoke : :
now i have to get it back to my parents' to drill an exit hole for the beam in the front and three holes on top, for the pots of the amplifier. by now everthing seems to fit pretty nice into the case (some kind of psu i think, found it in the trash), it has two leds and two switches on the back, just perfect for switching laser & amp ;D
i think this won't be any good for actually projecting something, but it makes an awesome music effect, and thats what i'm going to use it for. at the moment the ld is a loc@120ma, i think i will leave it like that, its nice and bright without getting warm.
i already posted some pics in wummi's thread, yesterday i took the parts to my parents' house (more tools and some space to work with them ) and started to make it an actual build, not just two hdd cases glued together (to be honest now it is two CUT hdd cases glued together, so far all i used was 1/2 stick of hotglue : ). that's how it looks now:
in the dark:
and with some smoke : :
now i have to get it back to my parents' to drill an exit hole for the beam in the front and three holes on top, for the pots of the amplifier. by now everthing seems to fit pretty nice into the case (some kind of psu i think, found it in the trash), it has two leds and two switches on the back, just perfect for switching laser & amp ;D
i think this won't be any good for actually projecting something, but it makes an awesome music effect, and thats what i'm going to use it for. at the moment the ld is a loc@120ma, i think i will leave it like that, its nice and bright without getting warm.